Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Associate Professor Maguire is an Early Career Researcher and Senior Academic in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her key research interests are in stroke epidemiology, stroke outcome and the genetics of stroke. She has 13 years experience as a clinical researcher working in medical and nursing observational and genetic epidemiology research and has experience in the design, conduct and management of large scale international clinical research, in particular case-control association studies. She also has experience in survey design and development, and interview and focus group methodologies. She is the current Chair of the International Stroke Genetics Consortia, national manager of a current NHMRC project grant conducting the first Australian Genome Wide Association study in Ischaemic stroke and sits on the management and steering committees for this national and international multi-centre collaboration. Associate Professor Maguire was recently awarded a prestigious HMRI Pulse Education Prize, and is currently launching a program of stroke research within the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Research expertise

Associate Professor Maguire has over 25 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse with both paediatric and adult patients in acute care and community based health facilities. She is an Early Career Researcher and Honours Program Convenor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle. Jane has over 15 year’s research experience in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Her doctoral studies focussed on candidate genes in stroke risk and led to her substantial international profile and current elected Chair of the International Stroke Genetics Consortia http://www.strokegenetics.com/news/steering-committee-changes. Jane’s role on this committee is as a result of her endeavours during her doctoral studies, a population based genetic association study investigating the genetic epidemiology of stroke and her stroke team’s research program within the UoN PRC Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health and the Australian Stroke Genetics Collaboration. Dr Maguire is particularly interested in the genetics of early and later outcomes for patients following ischaemic stroke (Maguire et al 2009). She is currently collaborating with colleagues across the UK and USA to further investigate the genetic basis of stroke outcome. This involves using a genome wide association design and pooling the largest global collection of data for this phenotype consisting of fourteen cohorts of acute stroke patients. Over the last 5 years Jane has presented the progress of this research at the European Stroke Conference, The World Cardiology Conference, numerous International Stroke Genetics Consortium workshops, Malaysian Joint Medical Conference and the Stroke Society of Australasia's Annual Scientific Meetings. Jane is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Neurosciences, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease and American Heart Foundation's Stroke and has over 20 peer reviewed publications.Key research interests are in stroke genetics, stroke epidemiology and outcome.

Languages

English

Fields of Research

Code

Description

Percentage

110999

Neurosciences Not Elsewhere Classified

40

110299

Cardiovascular Medicine And Haematology Not Elsewhere Classified

30

111706

Epidemiology

30

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

Member - National Stroke Foundation

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

Member - School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Committee

Fellow - Priority Research Centre Brain and Mental Health

Member - Stroke Society of Australasia

Member - National Brain Foundation

Member - Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Collaboration

Dr Maguire is currently collaborating with the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) as a member of and the National manager for , the Australian Stroke Genetics Collaboration (ASGC). These collaborations include the ISGC Belgium group, led by Prof Vincent Thijs; ISGC Edinburgh group, led by Prof Cathy Sudlow; ISGC Boston group, led by Dr Natalia Rost; ISGC London based Metastroke group, led by Prof Hugh Markus; ISGC USA group, led by Prof Bard Worrell; ISGC Maryland USA group, led by Prof Braxton Mitchell.

Nationally, Dr Maguire is collaborating with an ASGC member based in Townsville as an associate investigator on 2011 funded NHMRC grant ID 1011649 for a study titled 'Role of Tenascin-C and TLR-4 in carotid atherosclerosis related stroke'.

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Since my appointment in 2011 as senior lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, I have accepted the responsibility of the Program Convenor for Honours students and Course Coordinator for a large undergraduate first year course. I have also accepted the responsibility and made substantive and sustained contributions to scholarship committees convened to select appropriate recipients for the Hunter New England Honours Scholarship, the Aston Scholarship and the ADSSI Honours Scholarship. I have been involved in convening and co-coordinating as Program Convenor and Course Coordinator for 6 undergraduate courses in the Bachelor of Nursing Undergraduate Program and the Honours Program. This includes teaching through a variety of mediums, includes face-to-face and online tutorials. These roles also include peer reviewed quality assurance processes and frequent curriculum review. I have actively promoted the Honours Program to potential undergraduate students during lectures and tutorials and I have met and discussed options and given advice regarding the program structure and scholarship opportunities with interested students from all years of the undergraduate degree.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

Clinical supervision

Online Course Development

Program Convenor

Undergraduate Course Development

Undergraduate Teaching

Teaching expertise

Outstanding contribution to teaching 2011-2012 At the commencement of my academic teaching position with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, I engaged my intellectual capacity, motivation, high level organisational skills, collaborative capacity, drive and determination to develop the new curriculum for NURS1201 Foundations in Professional Practice 1B delivered for the first time in S2 2012. This is a 20 unit course and is delivered to over 500 first year students in semester 2.In addition to my input into designing all tutorials, lectures and online resources, I have added a unique element in the form of clinical scenarios that are based on real life stimulus material. I had the privilege of being offered the use of personal diaries donated for educational purposes which I used to develop a series of clinical scenarios. These scenarios not only gave the students a unique insight into the experiences of a person with a complex disease (multiple sclerosis), but also created an opportunity for the students to seek and create a community connection with Lyn in the real world. This has been mutually beneficial. Students have also reported how invaluable this has been to them as a direct application of person centred care and as a student resource. I have been the Course Coordinator for this course since its inception in S2 2011. This large 1st year course commenced with 536 students. My commitment to teaching excellence, and strong interpersonal and organisational skills combined with a team of dedicated tutors resulted in 74.2% of the students successfully completing this Foundations course. At the time of grade reporting there were 458, 489 students enrolled in the course for 2011 and 2012 respectively. This represents a loss of approximately 78 students (14.5%) and 74 (13%) respectively.

Research Supervision

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced

ProposedCompletion

Program

Supervisor Type

Research Title

2015

2023

PhD (Nursing)

Co-Supervisor

Quality of Life Issues for Young Women with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

2015

2019

PhD (Nursing)

Co-Supervisor

Development of an Educational Module or Make a Recommendation and Evaluation of Culturally Appropriate Assertiveness Communication Training Module for Health Professional Students with the Background where Cultural Barriers may Hinder Assertiveness

2015

2018

PhD (Medicine)

Co-Supervisor

Genomics and Pharmacogenetics of Stroke

2014

2022

PhD (Nursing)

Co-Supervisor

What is the Survivors' Experience of a Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation?

2013

2017

PhD (Nursing)

Co-Supervisor

The Influence of Healthcare Pathways upon the Outcomes and Experiences of People with TIA or Minor Stroke: A Mulitmethod Approach

2013

2017

PhD (Nursing)

Co-Supervisor

An Ethnographic Study of the Subculture of Chaay Rak Chaay (Gay Men) in Thailand from a Nursing Perspective